//Copyright 2008 Kristian Gundry And Rune Juhl-Petersen
//This file is part of Plain.

//Plain is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
//it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
//the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
//any later version.

//Plain is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
//but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
//MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
//GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

//You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
//along with Plain.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace Plain.Mapping
{
	/// <summary>
	/// instance of global domain mapping
	/// </summary>
	public interface IMapper
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Gets a <see cref="IDictionary"/> containing property names as keys and the translation as values
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="t">typeof(class)</param>
		/// <returns>Dictionary representing mapping</returns>
		IDictionary<string, string> GetMapping(Type t);
		/// <summary>
		/// Gets a <see cref="IDictionary"/> containing property names as keys and the translation as values
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="t">typeof(enum)</param>
		/// <returns>Dictionary representing mapping</returns>
		IDictionary<string, string> GetEnumMapping(Type t);
	}
}
